When was skinny jeans made

One of them gobs into the water. The snackers at the nearby food shacks are all in skinnies and the shoppers are too. So now for that game.

It's 2. In the first minute, 14 pairs of skinny jeans go past. Another 40 pass in both directions over the next three minutes.

Then another 44 in two minutes. Over the next four minutes, That's in 10 minutes. If this average were to hold, more than 1, pairs would cross this shopfront in an hour.

Among those passing is Haleema Kukoyi, 24, who bought her jeans in Evans, the plus-size shop. Contrary to the instinct that skinny jeans give the self-conscious nowhere to hide, she likes them precisely because she has "weird-shaped legs and these work best for me. Aminah Abdullah, 17, from Cologne, wears them "because they make your legs look skinny", even though her mother doesn't like them.

Donna Watson, 26, and Ross Callender, 25, are both in smart, dark skinnies. She is a marketing manager for The Chimes shopping centre in Uxbridge, and he is a marketing manager for an insurance company. Can their marketing expertise explain the success of skinny jeans?

Witness Hayley Carruthers, 42, who bought her first pair last week. Why wait all these years and then take the leap? Of a kind. Skinny jeans are less a fashion choice than a default setting.

We have come to see them almost as a blank canvas, a piece of clothing that has ceased to signify anything; come, in fact, almost not to see them at all. It is this invisibility that has enabled them to act as the vehicle for countless other mainstream trends of the past decade, the silent partner to a succession of high-fashion looks.

First they tucked neatly into boots early in the decade, when boots were all that women wore, or worked well with Converse when Converse were all that men wore. It was skinny jeans that made ballet pumps prolific , fetishising that little scooped-out bit of foot between shoe and hem, and later, with their cleanness at the ankle, acted as a curtain-raiser to hefty statement shoes. They gave extra spike to handbags with hardware in and their narrowness at the ankle supplied the perfect counterpoint to those pointy shoulders that Balmain produced in Additionally, Butterick released a number of sewing patterns for slim-fit pants, making the style more accessible to the average woman than ever.

This dip in popularity was short-lived however. By this time denim was cemented as a wardrobe staple, and the punk wardrobe nearly always featured distressed, slim-cut jeans preferably covered in safety pins and patches. High waisted, looser on top, with a tapered ankle, this particular style is a distinctive relic of the decade. It has also been frequently replicated by American Apparel and a number of other brands looking to bring the mom jean back in keeping with the normcore trend.

Create one here. Already have an account? Log in here. Thanks, but no thanks. No, thanks I'm already a PureWow fan. No, thanks I hate pretty things. Over the past decade, skinny jeans have swiftly solidified their standing as a must-have wardrobe staple akin to a plain white T-shirt or little black dress. Here, a brief history of skinny jeans in all their glory. They quickly became our new go-to for slipping into cowboy boots and slouchy wedges.

By , the curve-hugging cut had finally been accepted by the general population. So we slipped back into our favorite denim styling tricks of yore, like Amanda Bynes slinging a wide boho belt around her hips.

Or Lauren Conrad wearing her skinnies with no fewer than two layered tanks or tees. Perhaps in an attempt to make skinny jeans feel more like regular pants, brands like Old Navy and Express began pushing denim in every color of the rainbow, from sunflower yellow to mint green to royal purple. Maybe they thought this would make it easier to figure out how to work skinny jeans into our regular outfit rotation.

By , designers and stylists finally decided to return to the roots of skinny jeans to crack the sartorial code. See the Balmain runway collection for spring that kickstarted this exact aesthetic. The pre-worn look became the be-all and end-all across all denim styles, leading teens and somethings to spend twice as much money on jeans just to have them inexplicably torn from thigh to ankle.

In fashion, the pendulum tends to swing from one extreme to the other with a certain sense of drama. So after the rock moment was over, glam was in. We began to take skinny jeans much more seriously as they slowly started replacing most of the other denim and pants options in our wardrobes. Katharine Hepburn was an early advocate of all-day denim for women, becoming the first woman to wear pants in a major motion picture and wearing jeans on set.

Eventually, other actresses — including Marilyn Monroe — picked up the trend and helped propel it into popularity.

Then, in the early s, skinny jeans reached a pinnacle — the slim pants were everywhere. We experimented with high rise versus low rise, distressed denim, light washes versus dark washes and even colored jeans. Jeans made their debut on red carpets, and stars like Keira Knightley and Ashley Tisdale rocked a few memorable looks. A post shared by harrystyles. It seems like these looser styles are replacing the skinny jean as the go-to pant. The obvious answer would be the natural ebb and flow of fashion; trends go in and out of style all the time.

One reason could simply be comfort; wearing these looser styles is less constricting than skinny jeans, and they allow a much wider range of motion.